I was unexpectedly happy to see this coming out. I watched History Of The World Part 1 DECADES ago and always thought the "Part 1" was just a larf on a larf, but when this was announced, I got really excited. I need some dumb fun in my life right now. My gf has never seen Part 1; instead of breaking up with her, I'm now questing to find it. She won't like it, but at least I can leave her knowing she's seen it, and that Part 2 will have the necessary context if she leaves me first.
Ok, here's the thing: old super-successful comedians are just NOT GOOD any more.
It's not the word "b*tch," so there's that. Also, no one has unironically used bitchin' to describe anything in decades. But if you want any semblance of "positive context" for the actual word "b*tch," I guess you can throw a bone (no pun intended) to female rappers with no self-esteem who use "badass b*tch" as a badge of honor, y'know, the kind of women who make their mothers proud by being the recipient of a bukkake from men she feels superior to.
That's an interestingly specific example.
Something about big tough men saying the phrase "you've been knicked" in aggressive tones just sends me into giggles every time I hear it. That and the silly little wigs their lawyers wear.
Its all relative, but silly slang or no, there's no fuckin' way I'd want to have been on the wrong end of the Flying Squad back in the 70s.
They're not overly dangerous in a physical way, but they are in a metaphysical way. It's hard to pull of (given our pre-established expectations in fictional universes), and I apppreciate Lovecraft's intent more than his actual achievements. But the simple breach of normality, the mere existence of Something Else™, is an ontological cataclysm.
Yeah. Even though they share the same cosmology, I tend to take these stories in isolation. It's also why I don't like overblown crossovers in general. I'm a bit more okay with a superhero being unique with their odd secret power than these huge crowds of superheroes in dc/marvel comics that seemingly constitute 93% of mankind, top10-like. When the fantastic becomes mundane it ceases to be fantastic. We're also forced to do that with chronology : The universe of Doctor Who isn't sustainable if you take it as a whole - it's nice for one christmas special joke where londoners seem jaded about alien invasions, but if taken seriously it just alters the setting too much. Its backdrop becomes star trek's.
OTOH, they haven’t really changed much when you think of it. Times have though, and through it all they are just doing the same old thing.
I do think they changed. They have shifted their entire focus into personal ego grievance. It used to be a just a piece of it but not the whole thing.
